Blackball

Created by Zachary Arthur, last modified on Sep 23, 2008

blkbl/, /blkbal/ VB- In fraternity or sorority usage, vote against, as in, "We are going to be blackballing tonight." F02 No direct object needed, distinguishing this usage from negative vote in OED, RH, W3, AH NDAS.

This entry was originally created by M. Gigante, 2006.

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Based on survey results, 100% of participants could define the word. These results indicated that the word is not obsolete (M Gillanders, A-F, 2019).

Posted by meg23 at Apr 15, 2019 12:56

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